From Concepción to the "Twin Craters", and beyond... |
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From Concepción to the "Twin Craters", and beyond... |
 Mar 30 2010, 09:58 PM
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Yes, not a so bad view actually
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Mar 30 2010, 11:10 PM
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QUOTE (Ant103 @ Mar 30 2010, 02:58 PM)  Yes, not a so bad view actually Even has an ice-cream cone lying on the sand there! 
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Mar 31 2010, 01:57 AM
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Here is a 3-image panorama of the Navcams today (Sol 2197) of San Antonio, exaggerated 3x. Interesting structure in the craters.
--Bill
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Mar 31 2010, 06:50 AM
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The isthmus would have been an easy drive after all.
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Mar 31 2010, 10:04 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
Also a drive into the crater(s). They do look like Eagle crater in terms of aging, don't they?
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Mar 31 2010, 10:26 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5548 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I'm glad Oppy didn't land within driving distance of Valles Merineris...
"You know, if they're really careful, I'm sure they could drive Oppy down there to the floor..." Just joking. Oppy is an explorer, her mission is to see new things. But sometimes it does feel like one of those episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, where they spot a swirly, angry, clearly dangerous, potentially starship-devouring "spatial anomoly" and Janeway beams "Let's go take a closer look...!"
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Mar 31 2010, 11:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2282 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
Reminds me of the opening segment of the old 1960's TV series, Mission Impossible: "Jim, your mission, should you decide to accept it..."
But seriously, there is the need to anthropomorphise our Intrepid Explorers. We assign gender, have a mental image of a WALL-E bopping around Mars on a tour. Nothing wrong with that, the Rovers are an extension of all of us. Though, I imagine, a psychologist would have a field day...  Just as when we were younger, Oppy may have also been inclined to try hazardous things in the name of exploration. It is amazing that we all survived adolesence. Now that we and Oppy are "6-score and whatever" we tend to be a bit more careful. [/philosophical_mode] I would like to get at the edge of rim for a closer view of That Rock...  --Bill -------------------- |
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Mar 31 2010, 04:44 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4533 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Sloughhouse, CA Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Mar 31 2010, 04:00 AM) I would like to get at the edge of rim for a closer view of That Rock... It looks like a cat. Not just in shape, but how and where it's sitting (right Ted?) -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 31 2010, 05:19 PM
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Waiting for Opportunity!
There's two tiny stones on the dune to the far left of Ant's wonderful panorama. They're bound to be called Vladimir and Estragon. They they are, sat on the surface of Mars for perhaps thousands and thousands of years, not sure what's going to happen, every day the same old same old, when - all of a sudden - a rover trundles past...  Andy |
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Mar 31 2010, 05:30 PM
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Oh yes, Beckett said it right:
"In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness!" Almost unsettling how close he got it! -------------------- To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. -Giordano Bruno, 1584.
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Mar 31 2010, 05:55 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 31 2010, 05:44 PM) It looks like a cat. If it's a cat, it looks like a black cat.  I wonder if Oppy's hazard avoidance abilities include not crossing black cats' paths?
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Mar 31 2010, 07:55 PM
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Here, kitty kitty!
http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...I4P2404L7M1.JPG |
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Mar 31 2010, 08:22 PM
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Now the question is...who left the damn cat in there?
(first post but long time reader)
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Mar 31 2010, 09:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2566 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Twin craters = twin blueberries: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...PGP2936M2M1.JPG
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Mar 31 2010, 09:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2282 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
1M299696631EFFA3PGP2936M2M1= Sol 1932,
EDIT: oops, got timestamp and Sol# confused...thanks, fredk http://www.greuti.ch/oppy/html/filenames_ltst.htm is a useful filename decoder... --Bill PS-- Look at the blocky nature of That Rock. We gotta look closely at this one (I'm sure to get Shunned...). Need to go out this evening, but we've got an L257 Pancam of the rock and isthmus-- have fun. http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...I4P2404L2M1.JPG -------------------- |
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